Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03

when there was nothing In the south to pro-
tect, and they have not generally kept up, ST
the people themselves have. with the purposes
and demands of the present time, The south
has grown in these latter yesrs in spite of them
and their wrong ideas; it has progressed and
prospered under existing Republican tariff
laws, and 1t can doubtless continue to do 50.
The people owe Is to themselves. however, to
encourage their own prosperity by removing as
much'as possible the constant menace of the
practically solid free trade delegations from
the southern states.
AS liberal as the north has been with It's CAPT.
tai In the south, who can say how much more
liberal itwould have been had the attitude OF
| Southern Congressn en- been different: Assur
ance of protection for investments is undeR.~
ably necessary, but there would be such
assurance Il TIE methods of Carlisle and the
! southern statesmen who act With him shoald
prevail To the people of the south, who are
| Just fairly awakening TO their own opportuni-
ties, this is no. alone question of inviting and
protecting Investment from abroad; Is is to
! them a question of their own protection and
the encouragement OF their own prosperity.
They canGot always safely make the mistaks
| they are now repeating Pvery time they elect
representatives in Congress or vote for Prcsi-
dent of the United States. 1t is and mast be to
| them aT1atter of bustness to which their eyes
| will sooner or later Ge Cpened.-[ Philadelphia
Press.
/ TIE Press is not OK those who may be
expected to opens It's eyes to the under
lying cause of The southern boom.
There was no "beom' In the south so
| long as radicaIisG ruled the land and gave
Official sanction to cruel ISLANDERS of
southern people and southern society.
For quarter Of g century the men of the
Old South labored on to upbuild what had
! been torn down in the face OF every OBJ
stacle that radical legislation and radical
hate could lnterpose. Despite all, the
Inauguration of Democratic rule found
! the south ripe for boom, and when it
was found that Cleveland, with his
Southern B-igadier" party, and Bayard,
Lamar and Garland did not do those
things which radicalism had predicted IS
q consequence of Democratic ascendancy,
northern capital sought the profit to be
found in southern investments.
The iron and the coal and the rich
lands of the south were known of men
| AShS JOoAS oSOy DuG Aou-Ool PACoo
preached SANDER and capital feared the
south; Clevelsnd's election and admins
tration efectually disproved all that had
! been predicted of Democratic rule, and
the character of the south and Its pur-
poses found emphasis in the nationality
of three southern men in the cabinet.
Cleveland made the south truly part of
common country with the north,
and not the tariff, but Democratic
rule has been the cause of
southern developments; and the
Press will preach in vain to men who
worked for twenty-five years without en-
couragement from that newspaper, and
laid the foundation TO what is now to be
seen in all parts of the south.
SANDER could not retard southern pro
gress forever, and the protection organ
will not seduce southern people to the
embrace of those who were never friends.
The Press speaks twenty years too late